Romania: Political Developments and Data in 2019
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 310-322
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 310-322
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Band 58, Heft 1, S. 232-240
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: Journal of Romanian Studies 1,1
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 24, Heft 1, S. 112-114
ISSN: 1470-1316
Since 1989, reforms have sought to align the Romanian post-communist intelligence community with its counterparts in established democracies. Enacted reluctantly and belatedly at the pressure of civil society actors eager to curb the mass surveillance of communist times and international partners wishing to rein in Romania's foreign espionage and cut its ties to intelligence services of non-NATO countries, these reforms have revamped legislation on state security, retrained secret agents, and allowed for participation in NATO operations, but paid less attention to oversight and respect for human rights. Drawing on democratization, transitional justice, and security studies, this article evaluates the capacity of the Romanian post-communist intelligence reforms to break with communist security practices of unchecked surveillance and repression and to adopt democratic values of oversight and respect for human rights. We discuss the presence of communist traits after 1989 (seen as continuity) and their absence (seen as discontinuity) by offering a wealth of examples. The article is the first to evaluate security reforms in post-communist Romania in terms of their capacity to not only overhaul the personnel and operations inherited from the Securitate and strengthen oversight by elected officials, but also make intelligence services respectful of basic human rights.
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In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 244-254
ISSN: 2047-8852
In the twenty-five years since the Soviet Union was dismantled, the countries of the former Soviet Union have faced different circumstances and responded differently to the need to redress and acknowledge the communist past and the suffering of their people. While some have adopted transitional justice and accountability measures, others have chosen to reject them; these choices have directly affected state building and societal reconciliation efforts. This is the most comprehensive account to date of post-Soviet efforts to address, distort, ignore, or recast the past through the use, manipulation, and obstruction of transitional justice measures and memory politics initiatives. Editors Cynthia M. Horne and Lavinia Stan have gathered contributions by top scholars in the field, allowing the disparate post-communist studies and transitional justice scholarly communities to come together and reflect on the past and its implications for the future of the region
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 22, Heft 5, S. 630-631
ISSN: 1470-1316
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 23, Heft 1-2, S. 216-217
ISSN: 1470-1316
Are there any lessons Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners? This book argues that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past. Taking a broad definition of transitional justice as their starting point, contributors provide fresh assessments of the history commission, court trials, public identifications of former communist perpetrators, commemorations, and unofficial artistic projects that seek to address and redress the legacies of communist human rights violations. Theoretical and practical
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Band 56, Heft 1, S. 229-236
ISSN: 2047-8852
In: The European legacy: the official journal of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Band 22, Heft 1, S. 118-119
ISSN: 1470-1316
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research. Political data yearbook, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 224-230
ISSN: 2047-8852